The Grace of the Holy Spirit Admits of No Delay
The corpus of Pope Benedict XVI’s teachings on the Blessed Virgin Mary grows apace. By means of his homilies and addresses on or around the...
Entrusting to Mary the Priests of the Whole World
Our Lady in the Life of the Priest Pope Benedict XVI has been using every opportunity to promote a fruitful observance of the Year of...
Returning to Knock
This coming Sunday evening Father Dan L. and I will be flying to Ireland and shortly thereafter we will be at the shrine of Our...
Pope Benedict XVI Closes Our Lady’s Month
Here is a translation of the address the Holy Father gave Saturday evening at the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens at the annual Marian...
A Church Driven by the Breath of God
Homily of Pope Benedict XVI for the Solemnity of Pentecost 2009 Apart from being a magnificent example of mystagogical preaching, the Holy Father’s Pentecost homily...
The Old Man Who Gives You Flowers
And, for Mother’s Day, another touching excerpt from E. Boyd Barrett’s autobiographical A Shepherd Without Sheep: In spite of his rebellion, his confusion of mind,...
Dum pendebat Filius
Last night He sat with us at table. His Face illumined the Upper Room and there, just above the bread and behind the chalice, beat...
Eia, Mater, Fons Amoris
Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent Commemoration of the Sorrowful Compassion of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Virgin of Sorrows is the Portress of...
The Mother of the Lamb and a Holy Priest
First Saturday of the Month Today is the First Saturday of March, an opportunity to draw near to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary....
2009 Belongs to Our Lady
For over thirty years now, my dear old friend Father Jacob, O.P. and I have renewed our consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of...
Secundum Verbum Tuum
For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course, Thy almighty word leapt down from heaven...
Our Lady in Advent
This morning at Vigils the Second Reading was from a homily by Abbot Geoffrey of Admont. It was wonderfully suitable, coming after the feasts of...
The Beauty of God Shining on the Face of Christ
The mystery of the Face of Christ is a constant motif in the writings and teachings of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI. Again, at...
Ave, liber incomprehensus
At Matins this morning I listened, enchanted, to Saint Epiphanius’ rapturous praises of the All-Holy Mother of God. The witness of Saint Epiphanius is precious:...
Sancta Maria in Sabbato
Our Lady’s Day Every Saturday of the Blessed Virgin Mary brings with it a fresh infusion of grace. One cannot commemorate the Immaculate Mother of...
This nation soaked in the blood of the innocent
There have been more than 40 million abortions in the United States since 1973. HEART OF JESUS, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb...
The Knotty Entanglements of Sin
The two Collects given us by the liturgy this week — the first in the Extraordinary Form, and the second in the Ordinary Form —...
Mary, the Virgin Who Leadeth the Lamb
Listening to Saint Bernard at Matins in the pre-dawn darkness, I was moved by his meditation on the obedience of the Son to the Virgin...
Our Lady of Mercy
Marian Orders and Institutes Our Blessed Lady is at the origin of any number of Orders, religious institutes, and monasteries. Very often she appeared, entrusting...
Papal Angelus from Lourdes
I thank the Holy Father for this marvelous Angelus message. The heart of it — or the word that resonated most strongly within me —...